In addition to the widespread illiteracy of the time, paper to record
information was considered an expensive luxury. For people struggling to
pay for the basic necessities of living maintaining family records was not
very important. Spelling of a name, birth and death dates, etc. were well
down
As I understand it, Thomas Jefferson used to see how many different ways he
could spell words. Spelling was not standardized til the mid 1800’s.
Til I heard that, I used to be s proud of my spelling….
Jane in Phoenix
From: LegacyUserGroup On Behalf Of
Linda Greethurst
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And those manifests were used to fill out Passenger Arrival Lists (what
I and others refer to as ledgers). This comes directly from the Ellis
Island website.
I'm not sure why people are so passionate about stating that these
errors never happened, when indeed they did, even according to
One of my grandmother's uncles and his family were on the manifest as the
name of his brother-in-law - presumably because HE had paid for the ticket
which was picked up in Liverpool before they left that port for New York
(and then Benton Harbor, MI). He had his Russian passport (in Cyrillic)
and
First, regarding Legacy, I agree with making the birth name the primary
name, unless the birth document had a clearly obvious error on it.
Regarding Ellis Island, I am puzzled by one thing. Before modern times, I
have never seen any evidence of a document being given to the immigrant or a
Fine and dandy to say it out loud. Try saying Snoddy and see it written
down as Snotty, which is why I always spell it S as in Sam, N as in Norman,
O as in Oscar, D as in David, D as in David and Y which needs no
comparison. Spell it S N O double D Y and see it written as Snowdy.
On Sun, Nov
Excellent advice, Linda!
On 11/24/2019 7:21 AM, Linda Greethurst wrote:
When I started my genealogical research many years ago, I was told to
ignore spelling (one s or double s; D or T; -son or -sen; kn or just
n; etc). Say the name out loud - if it sounds familiar, consider it
and research
When I started my genealogical research many years ago, I was told to
ignore spelling (one s or double s; D or T; -son or -sen; kn or just n;
etc). Say the name out loud - if it sounds familiar, consider it and
research it. Best lesson I learned.
The reason was that the average person before
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